XeroxCool

@XeroxCool@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing devil’s rusted avocado, if I know anything about mature content submissions, they’ll latch onto any whitelisted combo as soon as it’s discovered and dilute the actual desired content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexagonal slotted misalignment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ahem actually, SL8 is aligned to faces. SL10 is aligned to both vertices and edges. The vertex is the pinpoint of a corner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people wear underwear under the padded bike shorts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick question, does your bike seat have the padded part or is it just the tube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True torture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Orating tongue-twisters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put data centers in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Into another environment, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put data centers in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Overheating is a massive issue outside the atmosphere. There’s no passive airflow to transfer heat through convection and there’s no air at all to utilize conduction. The only method left is radiation - the mechanism that let’s you feel the heat of a fire from the side. That’s the slowest option of them all.

  Space is not cold in any sense of thermal management because space is essentially empty. Representations of people/fluids freezing when evacuated into space isn’t a good representation of actual thermal management. While there is some freezing effect, it’s because the rapid vaporizaiton of water cools the remaining water and can go below the freezing point. But, realistically, bodies don’t really freeze to an appreciable degree. Meanwhile, for everything else not containing water, there’s nothing to cool it down. In fact, of the very few particles that are flying around, they’re actually quite hot. Atoms flying for millions of years are still over 20,000 degrees.

  So no. Thermal management makes orbital data centers the actual worst option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 749 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Far Cry had the same loop in 3 and 4. Yes, it’s part of the classic ubi formula. Anyway, seems like Unity isn’t in your list. I recall that having about the same verticality as Syndicate, though no grappling hook and maybe less tall buildings. Mostly 3 floor apartment blocks plus some cathedrals. I played 1 year after release and really didn’t have any bugs, in spite of initial reviews

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diversity, Equality, Inclusion. The acts support diversity by barring exclusion on grounds of demographics and demanding equality by barring the use of demographic information as part of the hiring process. DEI does not define any minimum diversity metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to think DEI is when employers have to meet a diversity quota, when in reality, it upholds laws stating employers can’t make any hiring decisions based on race or any other such demographic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey jackass, this is why trucks with large tires are supposed to have mud flaps.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wheel coverings are required with a maximum exposure limit. The body usually does the job. Look to the 2022 Jag F-type and F-pace for little spats in the upper rear of the rear wheel arch for hidden compliancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it lower from 2/3+1 to 2/3 flat or is this math a perfect 5/7?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Typing how useless this comment is for the other 94% of the planet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dubya Bush brought him to the presidential dinner unironically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the opposite of another comment here. I guess I’ll beleive neither and refuse both tests to play it safe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we see Oil as always being here for humans? Isn't drilling like taking water out of a swimming pool? Sooner or later your going to run out of water.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it is sourced very far away and gets refined into a different product for consumer use that is always available (except during a local crisis) so therefore it’s not something to worry about and is naturally occurring.

  Short-sighted concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disregarding current event, why was it always said if you eat Taco Bell your going to have the burning shits or something? I've eaten it for years and nothing even happened.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because making jokes about “foreign” cuisine is easy and doesn’t need context when the whole herd has a general xenophobic understanding. See: Westernised Chinese food and headaches from MSG (a total myth)

  Quoted "foreign because no, , Taco Bell is not actually Mexican, but ask your nearest “taco bell shits” joker if there’s a difference and they’ll say it’s the same end result. Shit, ask the joker if they even eat Taco Bell and half will say no or give some “only when I’m drunk” explanation.

  My mexican+beer shits are the same as my wings+beer shits, brat+beer shits, and steak+whiskey shits. AKA my weekend shits, where I tend to have less vegetables and more alcohol.

  Add in variability with the gen pop for probably adding more hot sauce and having more dairy than their usual diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m familiar with looking at lights. Usually, what you’re describing is more of a blind spot that develops where the light lingered. I’m not looking at the light directly, either. It’s usually noticed when looking at a street normally with a streetlight above.

  Instead, this is like a bright streak that flashes across my sight. Not a lingering streak, not a burn, not a blindspot. Just like a repeat of the streak. Due to the flick nature of humans changing eye targets, the streak isn’t even perceived at first when I move my eyes. They snap to the next target. But the repeat streak has some motion to it, though very fast. I considered mechanical means of triggering receptors, but it matches the placement and direction of the source. If I turn my head and do the same exact eye movement, the repeat streak moves as well.

  I spend a lot of time in the dark. I’ve tried, but I can’t find a pattern. I initially thought it was a rhodopsin artifact (the chemical that dopes your receptors for dark adaptation over ~20 minutes without blue/UV), but I’ve had it happen immediately when going into darkness. Maybe my home isn’t as bright as I think it is? But still, it’s not a permanent feature and only works for a few minutes once I notice it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I don’t need to do that because my vision already streaks! Seriously though, I haven’t met anyone else that experiences what I do. At night, sometimes when looking around lights in the dark like a streetlight, moving my eyes will trigger a delayed streak 1 second later, like a lightning bug shooting across my vision in the same path the streetlight just took. It’s inconsistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with America and the #9? For example stuff cost something like 9.99 or 3 payments of 39.99 or 9 out of 10 doctors or dentists or whomever agree?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their gas prices probably are an extra 0.009 or 0.0099 higher than the “advertised” price. It’s not an exponent, just an abuse of tiny numbers to shove 9/10 of a penny into the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because when both adults work, it’s mean to leave a living creature home, alone, and enclosed for 9 hours. Pets are domesticated for companionship. It goes both ways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, the recent trend in my culture has been to get lots of flash (like the Clipart of an artist). There’s no meaning besides appreciating an artist’s style or making a reference to something with a logo/symbol/figurehead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dozens of different satire writers do this daily

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you Whatsapp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out, most of the globe is still charging out the ass for texting. It throws me off when hotels still closely guard their wifi and/or use access tokens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stick my head out a car window or a gust of wind hits my face it's like my throat closes and I can't breathe. How come motorcycle riders without helmets don't seem to have this problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a misunderstanding of the bernoulli effect. It does not say moving fluid has lower pressure as some universal law. It applies to when fluid is moving through the same exact route, as in, inside a pipe or around an object. It does not have anything to do with pressure inside the car vs outside., as it’s a massive, chaotic ball of turbulence where you get both inbound and outbound airflow at the same window or can do tricks to make one window inbound (rear windows) and one window outbound (front). If it were that simple, it’d still be hard to breathe on a motorcycle because your torso is somewhat shielded by the aerodynamics of the headlight/gauge area on a naked. Sport bikes often shield your torso as well, throwing air all at your head, which would cause the same “pressure differential” as the car example. But it doesn’t, because that’s not how it works.

  The classic example of this misunderstanding is things like pump pressure/flow rate charts. Flow rate goes up, pressure goes down in the chart. Nothing to do with this principle, everything to do with the pump being a fixed-power device putting out a certain amount of work. It’s more of a power vs torque thing than a fluid principle.

  And no, air does not move around a wing/airfoil, speed up on the longer side, and reunute its former molecular siblings at the tail of the airfoil. That’s a mythunderstanding, too. Nothing makes them meet up again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want the secondhand market. There’s no tangible profit there. They don’t want you to buy games. There’s tangible profit there only once. They want you to subscribe. They want recurring payments whether you use it or not. They want you to feel obliged to play certain games because you’re already automatically sending the money. They do not give a shit if you finish a title. Eyes on the screen in their ecosystem is all they want. It doesn’t matter if it’s the console manufacturer or the game developer. GTA(#) has been hyped for decades, they don’t need a physical GTAV to float around to convince a handful of people to buy GTAVI. GTA is not in the same market as FF

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't I apply SPF50 sunscreen twice to get SPF100 protection?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Be aware light clothing can still transmit enough light to burn. My bullshit test is “can I look at the sun through this fabric or does it hurt?”. It’s a little conservative, but it’s good enough for me if I plan to be out for 8 hours. I actually just got burned shirtless last week on one side. With a light, black, sports shirt the next day, I was in mild burning pain when the sun hit my burned side. It wasn’t just heat, as lifted the fabric off my skin still hurt the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half my internet (vehicle enthusiasts) hates EVs because they’re part of the liberal agenda. Half my internet (political progressives) hates Tesla because it represents the fascist agenda. And then the other 99% of my country’s citizens don’t give enough shits about the topics to post online about it. My liberal area is full of brand new Teslas.

  You’re seeing people complain. You’re not acknowledging all the other internet traffic you’re seeing talking about anything besides Ai. And here, there’s a higher anti-ai sentiment than other parts of the internet. Consider that a huge part of it has to do with the bullshit marketing terminology applied to chatbots and other pre-existing machine-learning suites that suddenly have a fresh coat of conversationalism that presents itself as authoritative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of bike lights throw a circle/oval/flood pattern which means they have to be aimed high to be usable. It’s just a flashlight at that point. It’s easy to make a decent beam pattern but neither the manufacturers nor the buyers give a shit.